Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr plunged to new depths of conspiracy theories when he claimed that Covid-19 was ‘ethnically targeted’ and that ‘the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.’
RFK Jr, 69, made the remarks at an event Thursday at Tony’s Di Napoli restaurant on New York City’s Upper East Side.
The son of the late Robert F. Kennedy engaged an audience with his bizarre rants about vaccines but the night descended into ‘a war of words and farting,’ reports the New York Post.
The Post also reported on RFK Jr’s anti-Semitic diatribe. ‘We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact,’ the Democratic candidate added.
He went to opine that the powers-that-be are working on biological weapons that will leave Covid-19 looking ‘like a walk in the park.’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pictured at Thursday’s event where he made bizarre claims about Covid-19 telling an audience that the virus was designed not to ‘effect Jewish or Chinese people’
RFK Jr, 69, made the remarks at an event Thursday at Tony’s Di Napoli restaurant on New York City’s Upper East Side
The event was organized by writer Doug Dechert and was said to have descended into a night of ‘shouting and farting’
Among Democrats surveyed in the recent poll, 58 percent support Biden for the nomination, while 15 percent back Kennedy
‘We do know that the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons and we are developing ethnic bioweapons. They’re collecting Russian DNA. They’re collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race,’ he continued.
There is no reputable evidence to suggest that anything RFK Jr said was accurate. Although there are new reports suggesting that Covid-19 was man made and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, there is nothing to suggest it was ethnically targeted.
The event was organized by writer Doug Dechert. According social diarist David Patrick Colombia, around 16 people attended the dinner, including someone from Amsterdam News, Page Six and radio host Rita Cosby.
Colombia wrote that a question-and-answer session began as soon as the first course was finished.
‘The honored guest talked about his thoughts on various subjects and situations he was asked about,’ Colombia wrote.
A heated argument ensued towards the end of the evening between the host, Doug Dechert, and art critic Anthony Haden-Guest. The critic called the host ‘a miserable blob’ and told him to ‘shut up.’
The critic went on to call Dechert ‘insignificant’ and ‘f*****g insane.’ Videos posted on social media show Kennedy laughing during the war of words.
Eventually, the night turned into further farce as Dechert could be heard farting while announcing: ‘I’m farting.’
RFK Jr’s advisor and right-wing activist Morton Klein told the Post that the candidate’s latest remarks ‘worried’ him.
‘This is crazy. It makes no sense that they would do that. I read everything. I was totally against the vaccine. . . I wanted to convince myself it was correct not to take it. I have never seen anything like this,’ Klein said.
Kennedy has dabbled in anti-Semitism with some of his other remarks surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.
He has repeatedly invoked Nazis and the Holocaust when talking about measures aimed at mitigating the spread of COVID-19, such as mask requirements and vaccine mandates.
He has apologized for some of those comments, including when he suggested that people in 2022 were worse off than Anne Frank.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr has pledged to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic
This week, Kennedy pledged to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic should he win the White House in 2024.
‘If there were crimes that he committed, of course, I would tell the attorney general to prosecute him, not hold off,’ Kennedy promised during an interview on Fox News.
Although Kennedy did not outright state whether America’s former top doctor is guilty of committing a crime, he stated how he believes Dr. Fauci caused ‘a lot of injury’ by alleging he withheld treatments from Americans during the early stages of the pandemic.
Kennedy said it was Fauci’s actions that actually contributed to the United States’ high death count.
‘I think that he particularly, by withholding early treatment from Americans, we racked up the highest death count in the world,’ Kennedy said during Monday night’s interview.
‘We only have 4.2 percent of the globe’s population, but we had 16 percent of the COVID deaths in this country and that was from bad policy,’ Kennedy explained.
‘There are countries that did the opposite of what we did that provided Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, other early treatments to their populations and had 1/200th of our death rate.
‘There are many, many things we did wrong in our country and some of those were I would say … some of the things that were done by health officials at that time, that they knew they would be harmful.’
Kennedy has in the past leveled similar accusations in a book entitled ‘The Real Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.’
Kennedy was then asked by host Jesse Watters why he continues to tout the false claim that childhood vaccinations are linked to autism.
‘I do believe that autism does come from vaccines but I think most of the things people believe about my opinions about vaccines are wrong,’ Kennedy said.
‘You know, all I have said about vaccines we should have good science. We should have the same kind of testing, placebo-controlled trials that we have for every other kind of medication.
‘Vaccines are exempt from pre-licensing placebo-controlled trials. So there’s no way that anybody can tell the risk of all those products or even the relative benefits of all those products before they are mandated and we should have that kind of testing.’
Kennedy was not challenged robustly by Watters during the interview who appeared to accept the details that he was touting.
The candidate is thought to be polling as high as 20 percent among some Democratic voters although there has been no indication that President Joe Biden will engage in a debate with him or self-help guru Marianne Williamson.
In announcing his campaign back in April, RFK Jr likened his campaign to the American revolution.
‘My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country,’ Kennedy said.
The candidate was once known most as an environmental lawyer who worked on issues such as clean water.
Kennedy launched his campaign at Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel on April 19 with his wife Cheryl Hines, the Curb Your Enthusiasm actress
But over the past nearly two decades, he’s become one of the leading voices of the anti-vaccine movement. His work has been described by members of his own family and public health experts as misleading and dangerous.
His efforts intensified after the pandemic and development of the COVID-19 vaccine, and in 2021 he linked up with anti-democratic figures and other groups.
He has appeared at events pushing the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and with people who cheered or downplayed the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
A photo posted on Instagram showed Kennedy backstage at a July 2021 Reawaken America event with former President Donald Trump’s ally Roger Stone, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and anti-vaccine profiteer Charlene Bollinger. All three have promoted the lie about the 2020 election being stolen.
Kennedy has been a guest on Infowars, the channel run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and on the ‘War Room’ podcast hosted by longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon, where he promoted his bestselling 2021 book, ‘The Real Anthony Fauci,’ in which he accused the U.S.’s top infectious disease doctor of participating in ‘a historic coup d’etat against Western democracy.’
During the pandemic, RFK Jr’s group, Children’s Health Defense, raked in funding and followers in the U.S. and abroad, and doubling its revenue from 2019 to 2020. Revenue more than doubled from $7 million in 2020 to $16 million in 2021.
Facebook and Instagram removed the accounts of Children’s Health Defense for spreading misinformation.
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